Week 3 of Super Rugby sees the Brumbies , Highlanders , Kings taking the free 4 points.
Super Rugby Friday starts the weekend with 3 games back to back.
Blues V. Crusaders
Date: Friday 01 March
Location: Eden Park, Auckland
Kickoff: 7:30pm (L), 5:30pm (AEDT)
Blues Crusaders
Tom McCartney 1 Wyatt Crockett
James Parsons 2 Corey Flynn
Charlie Faumuina 3 Owen Franks
Callum Retallick 4 Luke Romano
Ali Williams (c) 5 Sam Whitelock
Steven Luatua 6 George Whitelock
Luke Braid 7 Matt Todd
Peter Saili 8 Kieran Read (c)
Piri Weepu 9 Andrew Ellis
Chris Noakes 10 Daniel Carter
George Moala 11 Israel Dagg
Francis Saili 12 Ryan Crotty
Rene Ranger 13 Robbie Fruen
Frank Halai 14 Adam Whitelock
Charles Piutau 15 Tom Taylor
Reserves
Quentin Macdonald 16 Ben Funnell
Angus Ta'avao 17 Joe Moody
Liaki Moli 18 Dominic Bird
Brendon O'Connor 19 Luke Whitelock
Bryn Hall 20 Willie Heinz
Baden Kerr 21 Tyler Bleyendaal
Jackson Willison 22 Tom Marshall
Referee: Chris Pollock
Assistant Referee 1: Jonathon White
Assistant Referee 2: Sheldon Eden-Whaitiri
TMO: Ben Skeen
Waratahs V. Rebels
Date: Friday 01 March
Location: Allianz Stadium, Sydney
Kickoff: 7:20pm (L, AEDT)
Waratahs Rebels
Benn Robinson 1 Nic Henderson
Tatafu Polota-Nau 2 Ged Robinson
Sekope Kepu 3 Laurie Weeks
Mitchell Chapman 4 Hugh Pyle
Kane Douglas 5 Caderyn Neville
Dave Dennis (c) 6 Luke Jones
Michael Hooper 7 Scott Fuglistaller
Wycliff Palu 8 Scott Higginbotham
Brendan McKibbin 9 Nick Phipps
Bernard Foley 10 Kurtley Beale
Drew Mitchell 11 Richard Kingi
Tom Carter 12 Rory Sidey
Adam Ashley-Cooper 13 Mitch Inman
Tom Kingston 14 Lachlan Mitchell
Israel Folau 15 James O'Connor (c)
Reserves
John Ulugia 16 Shota Horie
Jeremy Tilse 17 Paul Alo-Emile
Paddy Ryan 18 Jordy Reid
Greg Peterson 19 Jarrod Saffy
Lopeti Timani 20 Nic Stirzaker
Matt Lucas 21 Angus Roberts
Ben Volavola 22 Tom English
Referee: Rohan Hoffmann
Assistant Referee 1: James Leckie
Assistant Referee 2: Ed Martin
TMO: Matt Goddard
Reds V. Hurricanes
Date: Friday 01 March
Location: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Kickoff: 8:20pm (L), 9:20pm (AEDT)
Reds Hurricanes
Greg Holmes 1 Ben Franks
Saia Faingaa 2 Dane Coles
James Slipper (c) 3 Jeffrey Toomaga-Allen
Rob Simmons 4 Jeremy Thrush
Ed O'Donoghue 5 Jason Eaton
Ed Quirk 6 Victor Vito
Liam Gill 7 Karl Lowe
Jake Schatz 8 Brad Shield
Ben Lucas 9 TJ Perenara
Quade Cooper 10 Beauden Barrett
Digby Ioane 11 Julian Savea
Ben Tapuai 12 Tim Bateman
Chris Feauia-Sautia 13 Conrad Smith (c)
Dom Shipperley 14 Alapati Leiua
Aidan Toua 15 Andre Taylor
Reserves
James Hanson 16 Motu Matu'u
Albert Anae 17 Reggie Goodes
Adam Wallace-Harrison 18 James Broadhurst
Radike Samo 19 Faifili Levave
Mick Frisby 20 Chris Smylie
Mike Harris 21 James Marshal
Luke Morahan 22 Reynold Lee-Lo
Referee: Steve Walsh
Assistant Referee 1: Andrew Lees
Assistant Referee 2: Damien Mitchelmore
TMO: Steve Leszczynski
There’s only one game on Saturday due to the Waratahs boys frocking up for some parade.
Chiefs v Cheetahs
Date: Saturday 02 March
Location: Waikato Stadium, Hamilton
Kickoff: 7:35pm (L), 5:35pm (AEDT)
Chiefs Cheetahs
Pauliasi Manu 1 Trevor Nyakane
Hika Elliot 2 Adriaan Strauss (c)
Ben Afeaki 3 Lourens Adriaanse
Michael Fitzgerald 4 Lood de Jager
Brodie Retallick 5 Francois Uys
Liam Messam (c) 6 Frans Viljoen
Sam Cane 7 Lappies Labuschagne
Fritz Lee 8 Phillip van der Walt
Augustine Pulu 9 Sarel Pretorius
Aaron Cruden 10 Johan Goosen
Asaeli Tikoirotuma 11 Raymond Rhule
Bundee Aki 12 Robert Ebersohn
Tim Nanai-Williams 13 Johan Sadie
Lelia Masaga 14 Willie le Roux
Gareth Anscombe 15 Hennie Daniller
Reserves
Rhys Marshall 16 Ryno Barnes
Ben Tameifuna 17 Coenie Oosthuizen
Craig Clarke 18 Ligtoring Landman
Tanerau Latimer 19 Boom Prinsloo
Tawera Kerr-Barlow 20 Piet van Zyl
Charlie Ngatai 21 Riaan Smit
Patrick Osborne 22 Ryno Benjamin
Referee: Mike Fraser
Assistant Referee 1: Garratt Williamson
Assistant Referee 2: Glen Jackson
TMO: Vinny Munro
And that leaves us with the South African home games in the wee small hours of Sunday morning.
Bulls v Force
Date: Saturday 02 March
Location: Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
Kickoff: 5:05pm (L), 2:05am (AEDT)
Bulls Force
Morne Mellet 1 Pek Cowan
Chiliboy Ralepelle 2 Nathan Charles
Werner Kruger 3 Salesi Ma’afu
Flip van der Merwe 4 Toby Lynn
Juandre Kruger 5 Hugh McMeniman
Arno Botha 6 Angus Cottrell
Jacques Potgieter 7 Matt Hodgson (c)
Pierre Spies (c) 8 Richard Brown
Francois Hougaard 9 Alby Mathewson
Morne Steyn 10 Sias Ebersohn
Bjorn Basson 11 Alfie Mafi
Wynand Olivier 12 Kyle Godwin
Lionel Mapoe 13 Winston Stanley
Sampie Mastriet 14 Nick Cummins
Zane Kirchner 15 Will Tupou
Reserves
Willie Wepener 16 Heath Tessmann
Frik Kirsten 17 Tetera Faulkner
Grant Hattingh 18 Sam Wykes
Jean Cook 19 Ben McCalman
Jano Vermaak 20 Chris Alcock
Louis Fouchè 21 Mick Snowden
Jan Serfontein 22 Jayden Hayward
Referee: Jason Jaftha
Assistant Referee 1: Lourens van der Merwe
Assistant Referee 2: Sieg van Staden
TMO: Johan Greeff
Sharks v Stormers
Date: Saturday 02 March
Location: Kings Park, Durban
Kickoff: 7:10pm (L), 4:10am (AEDT)
Sharks Stormers
Tendai Mtawarira 1 Steven Kitshoff
Craig Burden 2 Deon Fourie
Jannie du Plessis 3 Frans Malherbe
Anton Bressler 4 De Kock Steenkamp
Franco van der Merwe 5 Andries Bekker
Marcell Coetzee 6 Siya Kolisi
Jean Deysel 7 Rynhardt Elstadt
Ryan Kankowski 8 Duane Vermeulen
Cobus Reinach 9 Nic Groom
Patrick Lambie 10 Elton Jantjies
Lwazi Mvovo 11 Bryan Habana
Francois Steyn (c) 12 Damian de Allende
Paul Jordaan 13 Jean de Villiers (c)
JP Pietersen 14 Gio Aplon
Louis Ludik 15 Joe Pietersen
Reserves
Kyle Cooper 16 Martin Bezuidenhout
Wiehahn Herbst 17 Pat Cilliers
Pieter-Steph du Toit 18 Don Armand
Jacques Botes 19 Nizaam Carr
Charl McLeod 20 Louis Schreuder
Meyer Bosman 21 Peter Grant
Odwa Ndungane 22 Gerhard van den Heever
Referee: Jonathon Kaplan
Assistant Referee 1: Jaco Peyper
Assistant Referee 2: Cobus Wessels
TMO: Shaun Veldsman
